Waratah

We moved on from Hellyer Gorge reserve first stop was to have look at the evergreen arch which was made of trees that have formed an arch over the road. Then we went to view the falls at Waratah and the old waterwheel, as we are travelling through the west coast forests we see many old mining towns that have had better days when they were obviously quite vibrant with many businesses and townsfolk to work in the mines but as the mines have closed the towns have virtually shrunk back to nothing with only a few odd houses remaining. The roads are very hilly and windy making Kay nervous that there might be a massive truck coming the other way around the next bend..
At Rosebury we stopped for fuel and a rest break and a photo of another one of Kay’s streets.
When we got to Zeehan we saw a strange looking chunk of wood mounted on poles in the Central Park turns out if was a dilapidated small replica of the Zeehan a ship that Abel Tasman was sailing in when he named the mountain in 1642. (The guy in the rock shop told us what it was and that they will probably take it down soon). We purchased a couple of souvenir pendants for Kay.Weiterlesen